1. Longus. Daphnis and Chloe, translated by George Thornley, one of 210 copies on Arnold’s unbleached handmade paper, printed in Caslon type by the Ballantyne Press, 36 wood-engraved illustrations and 102 initials by Charles Ricketts and Charles H.Shannon, bound in black morocco, by J.Franklin Mowery, ruled in blind in blocks of diagonal rules and titled in gilt, black suede doublures and moiré silk flyleaves, signed at foot of rear doublure “JFM 93”, modern cloth slip-case, 4to, 283 x 210mm., Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893.
est. £1500 – £2000
The inspiration for this book came from Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili published by Aldus Manutius in 1499. On page 97 in the wedding scene woodcut the artists have included themselves as guests at the table, along with Lucien Pissarro, Reginald Savage, C.J.Holmes and T.Sturge Moore to whom the book was dedicated.
Exhibited: Decorative Arts 1900, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1993-94, no.23.
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